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I have a few ideas of Christmas presents and they all require fabric (really, I'm not just using this to support my addiction - ok, maybe just a little bit). This is all the recent fabric purchases all washed and ready for cutting. Pre-washing is such a pain. I would much prefer to cut into this stuff straight from the fabric shop. But its not to be. :(

Table runner for BM for Christmas (if I manage to get it done in time).

Fat Quaters for napkins for a friend in the US who's going through a bit of a rough time and needs something summery, bright and cheerful in her life.

And these last two are for a cushion in my office (which is very, very sterile at the moment).

This is the banana bread bake off.
Problem: not eating enough bananas during the week
Solution: try to fix the banana bread recipe
Opponents: Edmonds cookbook and the recipe that came with my silicon tray (I've been having problems getting this one right - way too moist and doesn't rise nearly enough)

On the plate: the extras in the smaller banana bread make it taste a lot nice to me but it still looks like it suffers from stunted growth issues. Must try harder the next time. BM prefer the Edmonds one too.

I bought a few Merino Wool jumpers when I moved to New Zealand. Unfortunately a few of them have felted themselves... Seriously irritating! But there's always the positive side - which is reusing the felted fabric! Above is what my blue jumper looks like now. Below is what it should look like. Actually as you can see from the tags below that the blue one is actually supposed to be a size bigger! And it was - I promise. All the felting didn't happen on its own (well that is after the first felting 'this jumper is now too small to be of use' mishap). Any time over the last few weeks when its been too wet to put out our washing and we had to use the dryer - the blue jumper went in for the spin! :)